Productive Ways to Fill Resume Gaps

No matter if you’re in a career transition or between jobs, it’s vital you continue to build skills and successes you can show on your resume. You will be viewed much more positively if you demonstrate recent achievements and continued growth than if you present a resume representing no new skill development or career growth over the last several months. You will also have interesting things to talk about when asked what you have been doing recently.

Spending time productively sounds much more impressive than simply saying you’ve been looking for a job. Here are four excellent avenues for productivity during a job search:

Volunteer

Give back to the community and add to your resume at the same time.

Be strategic about your choice of volunteer positions

Seek volunteer work at your professional level

Have goals including creating new success for the organization

Document successes and add them to your resume

Network with others in the organization and fellow volunteers

Intern

Transition into a new field or grow new skills.

Seek a position where you will have ownership of an area, allowing you to grow expertise and create quantifiable results

Be sure the company you are interning with has the bandwidth to help you learn and grow